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3. Establish a monitor to use with the remaining monitor commands by using the
monitor create command.
Command MONITOR CREATE
Description
Establishes a source as a failover monitor. This is the machine that
will be monitored by a target in case it should experience a failure.
Syntax MONitor CREATE <source>
Options source—Name of the source
Examples
● monitor create alpha
● mon create alpha
Notes
Machine names that contain non-alphanumeric characters must be
enclosed in quotation marks.
4. Specify that you want to use the monitor that was just created by using the monitor
use command.
Command MONITOR USE
Description
Specifies the source machine designated as the monitor that will be
used in subsequent monitor commands
Syntax MONitor USE <monitor>
Options
monitor—Name of the source machine designated as the monitor .
Examples
● monitor use alpha
● mon use alpha
Notes
Monitor names that contain non-alphanumeric characters must be
enclosed in quotation marks.
5. Configure the monitor settings (including the IP address to monitor, the target NIC
that will assume the IP address when it fails, the monitor interval and missed
packets) by using the monitor move command.
Command MONITOR MOVE
Description
Designates the IP address that will be failed over to the specified
target NIC
Syntax
MONitor MOVE <IP_address> TO NIC <target_NIC> USE NONE |
NETWORK INTERVAL <interval> TIMEOUT <timeout> |